Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo welcomed a giant dung beetle into the settlement after Meng Yin used her Nature Esper Ability to communicate with it. He then organized the Nature users to begin growing potatoes in isolated pots, leaving the group to wait for the first results.

• Chen Luo learned that the dung beetle had come to steal feces, then promised it an all-you-can-eat supply so it would return without being attacked.
• Meng Yin communicated with the dung beetle using her Nature Esper Ability, earning a meal of fried chicken, roast duck, and cola.
• Chen Luo gathered the Nature users, including Ouyang Lu and Li Cheng, and explained how to grow crops in uncontaminated potting soil.
• Li Cheng planted five varieties of potato seeds while Ouyang Lu used her ability and summoned a Grass Sprite to improve the soil.
• Meng Yin failed to understand the Grass Sprite, and Chen Luo planned to compare the potato varieties after at least half a month.

Chen Luo completed his fortified base, reorganized his people, and established strict housing and recruitment rules. Zhao Hai arrived with seven followers after his own group collapsed, hoping Chen Luo would let them join.

• Chen Luo raised the recruitment requirement to level four after accepting only a little over six hundred people from Feng Zhengqing's group.
• During the move, Dharma King drove a BMW with Silver Wolf and chased Gray Wolf away, while Chen Luo arranged for Jiang Feng to deal with him.
• Chen Luo's people spent two days settling into the new base, where he assigned homes and dug wells for water.
• Zhao Hai's base fell apart as supplies dwindled and his followers stopped respecting his authority, so he decided to seek refuge with Chen Luo.
• Chen Luo welcomed Zhao Hai and his seven followers personally, and Zhao Hai asked to earn his keep under him.

Chen Luo recruited Zhao Hai to lead Intelligence Team Two, while Lin Tian arrived in the Divine Capital seeking Chen Luo’s protection. Recognizing Lin Tian as the man who had killed Su Dazhu in his previous life, Chen Luo welcomed his lavish gifts and secretly resolved to wait until Lin Tian gathered his former followers before killing them.

• Chen Luo assigned Zhao Hai to organize Intelligence Team Two, alongside Jiang Feng’s Team One.
• Lin Tian brought his followers and supplies to the Divine Capital, learned of Chen Luo’s power, and decided to seek his backing.
• Lin Tian visited Chen Luo with lavish seafood gifts, and Chen Guang presented the gift list.
• Chen Luo recognized Lin Tian as his former-life enemy, who had led the men responsible for Su Dazhu’s death.
• Chen Luo accepted Lin Tian’s gifts with a smile but planned to let him gather his former followers before wiping them out.

Chen Luo learned about the Giant Sea Turtles near South City and set out alone to collect their tough shells. A red-eyed zombie stopped his car and threatened him.

• Lin Tian offered Chen Luo seafood and Giant Sea Turtle shells, earning Chen Luo's public backing.
• Chen Luo tested the shells, discovered their strength, and learned that a large group of Giant Sea Turtles had come ashore near South City.
• Chen Luo visited Lin Tian's base and told Lin Tian's people to use his name if anyone bullied them, but not to bully others themselves.
• Chen Luo left for South City alone, let a bandit group go after they recognized him, and continued toward the coast.
• A red-eyed zombie blocked Chen Luo's car, climbed inside, and threatened to cut out his kidneys if he did not behave.

Chen Luo traveled alone to South City to collect giant sea turtle shells, killing several turtles along the way. He reached the beach area and saw a man suffering a gruesome bite from a giant sea turtle.

• A level-four zombie tried to recruit Chen Luo to lure survivors, but Chen Luo overpowered it and told it to bring powerful zombies to the same spot in two days in exchange for meat.
• Chen Luo continued his journey and arrived in South City late that night after minor trouble delayed him.
• A giant lobster blocked Chen Luo's path, but he ignored it and ran onward.
• Three giant sea turtles attacked Chen Luo, who killed them and tore off their shells.
• Chen Luo heard a scream and found a giant sea turtle biting a man's privates.

Chen Luo rescued Li Kun from a Giant Sea Turtle and learned about an enormous Sea Turtle King that had laid eggs. After finding four viable eggs, Chen Luo escaped the Sea Turtle King and left it roaring on the beach.

• Chen Luo beheaded the Giant Sea Turtle biting Li Kun, and Li Kun told him about the Sea Turtle King and its nest before letting two crabs kill him.
• Chen Luo killed more than fifty Giant Sea Turtles as he traveled through their territory, drawing the Sea Turtle King toward him.
• The Sea Turtle King attacked Chen Luo with its extended neck, but its tough defenses and water-jet ability made Chen Luo decide not to fight it yet.
• Chen Luo used Void Walk to reach the Sea Turtle King's nesting site and dug up four spotted Sea Turtle Eggs.
• Chen Luo escaped as the Sea Turtle King returned, and it roared before swimming back toward the depths of Dahai.

Chen Luo returned with four Sea Turtle Eggs and arranged for them to hatch, then saw how Long Yu’s research was producing ability-boosting materials. He rewarded Long Yu and his assistant Lei Hao with better food and planned to recruit support staff for the growing research effort.

• Chen Luo carried four Sea Turtle Eggs back to the base and set them up according to his reference materials while warning the Dharma King not to touch them.
• Mi Li showed Chen Luo a wand Long Yu had made that saved ability energy and boosted its effect, though it worked less well for her sister and only slightly improved Chen Luo’s ability.
• Chen Luo visited Long Yu and Lei Hao as they experimented, and Long Yu tested a new Lightning-boosting material on the Dharma King, increasing its Falling Thunder power by twenty percent.
• Chen Luo gave Long Yu Feng Zhengqing’s level-five crystal so he could advance his research, while keeping Iron Head’s level-eight crystal for himself.
• Chen Luo brought Long Yu a daily ration of braised pork and promised Lei Hao three liang a day for helping, then decided to recruit support staff for the researchers.

Chen Luo went to meet the Zombie who had threatened to cut out his kidneys and found himself facing a powerful level-nine Space-type Zombie. After evading the Zombie's attacks and stalling him with a demonstration of Void Walk, Chen Luo watched him collapse, still muttering that the problem was too hard.

• Chen Luo asked Rice to predict the meeting, and Rice sensed a scare, no real danger, and exceptionally good luck.
• Chen Luo met the Burly Zombie and the level-nine Lean Zombie, who attacked him with Space Cutting.
• Chen Luo escaped the Lean Zombie's attacks with Void Walk and evaded a Spatial Cage.
• Chen Luo promised to teach the Lean Zombie Void Walk after another half hour of thought, then demonstrated it once.
• The Lean Zombie began convulsing and collapsed, muttering that the problem was too hard.

Chen Luo used his time ability to kill a level-nine Mutant, took its Space crystal, and absorbed enough energy to reach level seven. After learning that his base was running low on nearby Zombies to hunt, he prepared to test his newly strengthened time ability.

• Chen Luo blocked the burly Zombie from fleeing, spared him, and gave him sea turtle meat in exchange for bringing another Zombie in a week.
• Chen Luo confirmed the level-nine Mutant was dead, took its crystal, and returned to the base to absorb it.
• Chen Luo absorbed part of the Space crystal and estimated he would reach level seven in three days, while reflecting on the energy cost of his dual esper ability.
• Mi Ling told Chen Luo that the base had nearly cleared its district of Zombies, and Chen Luo decided the members would soon rest while continuing to absorb crystals.
• Three days later, Chen Luo advanced to level seven and eagerly prepared to test his time esper ability.

Chen Luo experimented with Time Acceleration and learned that it could age objects and living things but could not increase esper ability levels. After exhausting himself, he returned to Mi Li, and Meng Yin announced that her potatoes were ready.

• Chen Luo focused on a teacup and used Time Acceleration, making it yellow slightly while consuming some esper energy.
• Chen Luo accelerated a dung beetle’s growth, then tested the ability on a potato and watched it grow larger.
• Chen Luo used Time Acceleration on himself but gained no strength or esper ability levels, only facial hair, and concluded that the ability could not rapidly advance esper users or zombies.
• Chen Luo wondered about Time Reversal and combining time and spatial abilities, but decided the risk was too great.
• Mi Li asked Chen Luo about Time Acceleration, and Meng Yin called from outside to announce that her potatoes were ready.

Chen Luo prepared his base for the arrival of level-four Zombies by requiring members to collect level-four crystals and giving squads turtle-shell shields. After Lin Tian killed a group of desperate refugees to ingratiate himself with Chen Luo, he secretly resolved to surpass him.

• Chen Luo required each member to turn in three level-four crystals weekly and distributed turtle-shell shields to help them fight.
• Chen Luo gave high-quality shields to Mi Li, Mi Ling, Xia Haoran, Shu Yun, and Su Dazhu, while Dharma King got a shell strapped to his back.
• The members split into four groups to hunt Zombies, and Chen Luo left with four companions to gather crystals for the base’s Nature and Light users.
• A group of refugees knelt in front of Chen Luo’s car and begged him to take them in, but he ordered them to leave.
• Lin Tian traded seafood for water, then ordered his men to kill the refugees and clean up the scene to win Chen Luo’s approval.
• Chen Luo praised Lin Tian’s work, and Lin Tian watched him leave before vowing to surpass him and wondering whether to call him Little Chen or Little Luo.

Chen Luo found Big Strong leading a horde of zombies and forced him to gather more for a fight. Big Strong lured back over a thousand zombies, but also attracted a level six mutant that attacked him, so he cried out to Chen Luo for help.

• Chen Luo discovered Big Strong commanding zombies as they attacked a residential complex, then trapped him and cleared the complex of zombies.
• Chen Luo ordered Big Strong to gather a large horde and bring it to him, threatening to smash his head if he disobeyed.
• One of Chen Luo’s four crystal collectors secretly pocketed several level four crystals while the group gathered them.
• Big Strong returned with over a thousand zombies, but a level six mutant followed him after hearing his claim that many people were waiting.
• The level six mutant attacked Big Strong, who begged Chen Luo to save him.

Chen Luo slaughtered a horde of zombies, discovered a way to shield himself from blood with spatial power, and recruited Big Strong to help gather more zombies. He revealed that crystals could strengthen zombies, then force-fed Big Strong three crystals and claimed he had poisoned him.

• Chen Luo rescued Big Strong by killing a level-six mutant with Time Acceleration, then took its metal crystal for Long Yu.
• Chen Luo killed hundreds of zombies while moving deeper into the residential complex and discovered Spatial Garment could keep blood off him.
• Jiang Chen and the other underlings collected the crystals as Chen Luo finished off the zombies and asked Big Strong to bring him more.
• Chen Luo explained that absorbing crystals could help zombies evolve and warned Big Strong to work for him.
• Chen Luo covered Big Strong's eyes with his scarf and forced three level-four crystals into his mouth, leaving him writhing in pain while claiming he had poisoned him.

Chen Luo’s members, Xia Haoran, Shu Yun, and Dharma King hunted zombies with varying degrees of risk and success. Dharma King faked his death during a fight between two powerful zombies, then killed the wounded victor and claimed both crystals.

• Chen Luo’s squads faced coordinated zombie attacks, relying on teamwork and Tortoise-Shell Shields as injuries and deaths remained common.
• Xia Haoran fought zombies alone with his powerful, hardened fists, while Shu Yun slowed more than twenty zombies with Blizzard so her teammates could kill them.
• Dharma King hunted zombies for points and watched a Fire zombie and a Lightning zombie fight over the bodies of survivors.
• The Lightning zombie struck Dharma King, who pretended to die and waited as the two zombies resumed fighting.
• The Lightning zombie killed the Fire zombie, then approached Dharma King for tortoise meat.
• Dharma King ambushed the wounded Lightning zombie with a Lightning Ball, killed it, and collected both crystals.

Chen Luo finished clearing the zombies with Big Strong, rewarded the crystal collectors, and exposed Jiang Chen for stealing level four crystals. Back at the base, he had Jiang Chen tied up for punishment while Dharma King returned with two high-grade crystals.

• Chen Luo killed the fourth batch of zombies, then sent Big Strong away and threatened it with a supposed poison that required monthly antidote doses.
• The four crystal collectors reported their totals, and Chen Luo gave each ten level four crystals before revealing his ability space by storing their haul.
• Chen Luo noticed the totals were fifty-two crystals short and suspected one of the collectors had stolen them.
• Chen Luo found level four crystals in Jiang Chen's pockets and ordered the members to tie him up at the training ground.
• Dharma King presented Chen Luo with two high-grade crystals and waited for him to calculate their point value.

Chen Luo rewarded Dharma King for bringing him two level seven crystals, then addressed the base, executed Jiang Chen, and promoted new Elite Members and Elders. The meeting ended with Dharma King still determined to become Dog Leader, while Mi Ling questioned the Elder title.

• Dharma King gave Chen Luo two level seven crystals, and Chen Luo paid him three thousand points and gifted him a lightning crystal.
• Chen Luo sold the level seven fire crystal to Mi Ling for two thousand points.
• At the Training Ground, Chen Luo explained why members had to fight zombies and hand over crystals, then outlined his rules for misconduct.
• Chen Luo executed Jiang Chen as a warning to the base.
• Chen Luo promoted seventy-nine people to Elite Member and named Mi Ling, Xia Haoran, Shu Yun, and Long Yu as Elders.
• Someone called Dharma King "Dog Elder" after the meeting, leaving Mi Ling to wonder who needed the title.

Chen Luo reviewed recruitment prospects and oversaw the base’s improved potato harvest, then learned that a man being hunted had offered a level seven Nature crystal for protection. Chen Guang proposed taking the crystal and turning the man away, leaving Chen Luo to decide how to handle the offer.

• Chen Luo ordered Zhao Hai to gather intelligence on Jin Yuanjiang, a future King Rank he hoped to recruit.
• Chen Luo distributed level four crystals to the Nature users, and thirty-two of them reached level four overnight.
• Ouyang Lu harvested 182 jin of potatoes grown with Meng Yin’s improved seeds, a twenty percent increase in yield.
• Chen Luo praised Meng Yin with three days of fried chicken and told her to work on chili pepper seeds next.
• Chen Guang reported that a hunted man had offered a level seven Nature crystal for protection and suggested taking it before kicking him out.

Chen Luo protected Jia Shan from Zheng Jin’s men in exchange for Jia Shan’s level seven nature crystal, then refused Zheng Jin’s offer to divide it. Zheng Jin, unwilling to risk war himself, sought help from Mr. Iron Legs.

• Jia Shan fled his pursuers and reached Chen Luo’s base, where Chen Luo promised to protect him and accepted his level seven nature crystal.
• Ma Yu recognized Jia Shan as a former coworker and cook, so Chen Luo assigned him to the Cook Squad and warned him not to pursue Ma Yu.
• Zheng Jin learned that Chen Luo’s base was too powerful to attack directly and sent a messenger to demand Jia Shan and a share of the crystal.
• Chen Luo refused Zheng Jin’s demand and challenged him to come take the crystal himself.
• Zheng Jin, furious but unwilling to fight Chen Luo’s base, went to a blood-soaked warehouse and asked Mr. Iron Legs to act.

Zheng Jin recruited Iron Leg and Wang Long to help him confront Chen Luo over a stolen crystal. At Chen Luo’s base, Little Red’s first chick hatched, Dharma King reached level six, and he revealed that someone had cut off his ear.

• Zheng Jin provoked Iron Leg into helping him fight Chen Luo by claiming Chen Luo had insulted him, then recruited Wang Long with the promise of one-third of the crystal.
• Little Red’s first egg hatched into a female chick, while the other eggs failed to hatch.
• Chen Luo gave Little Red Mi Ling’s remaining level-seven fire crystal to help her grow stronger and improve future chicks’ chances of survival.
• Dharma King reached level six and received five hundred points from Chen Luo for being the first to advance.
• Dharma King told Chen Luo that someone had cut off his ear and vowed to avenge himself.

Zheng Jin and Wang Long brought their forces to Chen Luo’s base and challenged him to hand over its crystal. Xia Haoran fought Iron Leg in Chen Luo’s place and smashed the zombie’s head, leaving Iron Leg barely alive.

• Zheng Jin and Wang Long arrived at Chen Luo’s base with their forces and plotted to take its crystal and absorb its members.
• Iron Leg shouted for a fight while Zheng Jin and Wang Long challenged Chen Luo to a duel for the crystal.
• Xia Haoran volunteered to fight Iron Leg, and Chen Luo agreed to let him take the challenge.
• Xia Haoran blocked Iron Leg’s kicks, struck his vulnerable spot, and knocked him down.
• Xia Haoran battered Iron Leg’s head until it was smashed apart, leaving the zombie barely alive.